On May 21, Brown rear-ended another vehicle with his Range Rover and failed to exchange information with the other driver, said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the Los Angeles city attorney's office.

Prosecutors say the singer did not produce a driver's license at the crash scene because he did not have a valid license at the time, and he left the scene without providing proof of insurance for his vehicle.

"I don't have all the answers and you can't show me a person that age who has it figured out. We live and grow. Let me live," he tweeted.

He ended his Twitter diatribe by pointing to a Bible verse, 2 Corinthians 12:10. It says: "That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

If convicted, Brown faces up to six months in jail.

The singer is already on probation after being convicted of domestic violence for striking singer Rihanna. A judge in the case could determine the hit-and-run charge amounts to a violation of his probation and seek to sentence him to jail or prison.